The Gloucester Writers Center is a place for working writers in a working town
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Jim Dunn and Laurette Folk
Jim Dunn is the author of SOFT LAUNCH (Bootstrap Productions), CONVENIENT HOLE (Pressed Wafer), and INSECTS IN SEX (Falling Angels Press). His work has appeared in various publications including Bright Pink Mosquito, Gerry Mulligan, Carve, No Infinite, Shampoo, EOAGH, Polis, The Battersea Review, and Jacket2 and elsewhere. He lives in Beverly, MA. Laurette Folk […]
NaNoWriMo Workshop for Young Adults: Character Development
Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, GloucesterBe a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center invite all young adults to a series of workshops to help with the process, culminating in an open-mic style reading at the Gloucester Writers Center. We will meet Mondays in the Young Adult section of the […]
Gabe Barboza and Paul Cultrera
Gabriel Barboza was birth'd in Massachusetts - Nurtured by New Bedford / Fall River people - Had first meeting with Walt Whitman at 16 - Digs the cosmos / circles / sexes / dreams - Currently learning to breathe. Born in Salem, Paul Cultrera found his way to Gloucester in 1974. While there two books […]
NaNoWriMo Workshop for Young Adults: Dialogue
Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, GloucesterBe a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center invite all young adults to a series of workshops to help with the process, culminating in an open-mic style reading at the Gloucester Writers Center. We will meet Mondays in the Young Adult section of the […]
NanNoWriMo Workshop for Young Adults: Wrapping It Up
Sawyer Free Library 2 Dale Ave, GloucesterBe a part of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! The Sawyer Free Library and the Gloucester Writers Center invite all young adults to a series of workshops to help with the process, culminating in an open-mic style reading at the Gloucester Writers Center. We will meet Mondays in the Young Adult section of the […]
Danuta Borchardt
Danuta Borchardt’s memoir, Life behind an Author’s Works—Memoir of a Translator, subtitled How I Came to Translate Witold Gombrowicz and the Many Faces of Thom covers about twenty years of her life. It deals with the art and craft of translating the novels of Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), an avant-garde Polish writer, allegedly a nominee for […]
Fish Tales: Road Trip!
Gloucester Stage Company 267 East Main Street, Gloucester, MA, United StatesIf you’re looking for something a little different to do with your Friday evening, try attending a Fish Tales; a popular, oral storytelling event, hosted by the Gloucester Writers Center. For every new Fish Tales, there is a chosen theme, and local storytellers gather to tell their tales. Whether the theme is baseball or nerds, […]
NaNoWriMo Reading for Young Adults
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterMonday, December 4: NaNoWriMo Reading at the Gloucester Writers Center Join us at 126 East Main Street for a celebration of all of our hard work. Questions? Contact AnnaKatherine Amacker at Amacker@sawyerfreelibrary.org or Amanda Cook at amanda@gloucesterwriters.org. For more NaNoWriMo resources visit nanowrimo.org.
The Inner Voice and the Outer World: Writings by Veterans and Their Families
Gloucester House 63 Rogers Street, GloucesterJungian Study Group
Jungian Study Group Monthly Meeting on Mondays -7:00 – 9:00 pm Carl Jung spent his lifetime exploring the relationship of our individual existence to the Grand Cosmology of the world around us. He addressed simple questions which are still being asked today. What is our relationship to ourselves, to others and to the world […]
Time to settle in with a good book.
As the cold weather settles in, we look forward to catching up on our reading. The Gloucester Writers Center starts is on its winter break. We look forward to seeing you as we open the season with our Open Mic on February 5.
Open Mic
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, Gloucester
Rory O’Connor’s Tales From Another Place.
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterRory O’Connor; grown and educated in the old country, he traveled the world and got shipwrecked in Gloucester, where he has lived for close to 400 years. Yes, he’s an old soul and he is very excited about his upcoming birthday in 2023. Check him out as he belly’s forth his particularly humorous view of […]
A Celebration of Gerrit Lansing
Gloucester Unitarian Universalist Church 10 Church Street, Gloucester , MA, United StatesOur friend Gerrit Lansing passed away on February 11, two weeks shy of his 90th birthday. We had planned a reading to celebrate the day and have moved it from the Gloucester Writers Center to the Unitarian Universalist Church on Middle Street to make room for everyone who would like to celebrate Gerrit's life on […]
Poems from Ward Three
Gloucester Writers Center 126 East Main Street, GloucesterAn informal get-together in Josh’s shed, the Responders take turns providing prompts and convene every Friday night to share responses and constructive critique over drinks by the fire. The get-together became a pact of “at least 52 weeks,” which has been fulfilled with this reading of selections from the past year. Organically, themes of Ward […]